Reverse The Order

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See terms and conditions at 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:30.120 UNEs dot co. 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.520 The God we serve knows how to reverse the order. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:36.600 You should have been defeated. 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:40.399 You should have lived struggling, but the reversal took place. 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:42.240 You went from the back to. 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:46.280 The front, from being overlooked to being honored, from struggling 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:46.960 to succeed. 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:49.280 Hi, this is Jolan Victoria. 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.320 Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:53.040 the ministry. 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:55.520 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:57.080 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.160 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.760 your line. 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:05.040 God bless you. 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.560 It's great to be with you today and I hope 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.040 you'll stay connected with us during the week to our 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.079 daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media. 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.480 We'll keep it encouraged and inspired. 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.239 I like to start with something funny and I heard 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.399 about this minister. He was driving down the road when 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.520 he was pulled over by a policeman. The officer came 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.959 to the window and smelled alcohol. He saw a thermist 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.680 and said, sir, what are you drinking. The minister said, 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:34.000 just water. Officer, he asked to see the thermist. He 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.760 took one sniff and said, smells like wine to me. 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:40.480 The minister said, what do you know? Jesus did it again? 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.760 Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.600 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.040 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.880 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:57.080 of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, my 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:58.320 heart is receptive. 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.920 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name. 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.400 God bless you. I want to talk to you today 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:09.840 about reverse the order. We all face times where we 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.520 feel like we're at a disadvantage. Others have more experience, 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:18.520 more qualifications, more resources. Seems like they get the good breaks, 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:19.839 the best physitions. 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:21.640 It's easy to feel. 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:25.959 Overlooked and left out. Friend told how it worked. People 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:30.440 take everyone's opinion except his. They see him as secondary, 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:34.840 too young, not much to offer. But Jesus said in Matthew, 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.880 the last shall be first. God knows how. 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.440 To reverse the order. He loves to. 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:45.000 Promote people who are not next in line, to take 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:49.600 those who are overlooked, discounted, and push them into their destiny. 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.920 One shift, one good break, and you'll go from being 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:58.160 overlooked to being in charge, from being left out to leading, 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.080 from being disrespected to being honored. 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:05.280 Don't get discouraged. If you feel like you're at the last, so. 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:08.840 To speak, you're in perfect position for God to show 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:10.560 out in your life. 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.120 The last is a setup. 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:17.000 Being discounted is not how your story ends. A reversal 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:21.839 is coming. What looks permanent is only temporary. Looks like 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.080 they have the upper hand, they have the advantage. But 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:29.400 what God has purpose for you cannot be stopped. He 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.919 didn't create you to live at a disadvantage. He didn't 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:36.039 breathe life into you to go around being overlooked. 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.680 He didn't crown you with favor for you to be discounted. 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:43.279 And yes, we all go through seasons where these things happen. 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:45.240 But don't think it's permanent. 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:49.359 There's going to be a reversal, a shift, a suddenly 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:53.359 where God catapulture from the back to the front, from 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:57.800 borrowing to lending. From business is slow to business is booming. 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:01.080 From no customers to get in life. We're in the overflow. 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:06.080 Don't judge your situation too soon. A reversal is coming, 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.760 something uncommon. You couldn't have made it happen. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.240 People that were against you are now suddenly for you. 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.000 They wouldn't give you the time of day. Now they 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:19.320 look up to you. Your marriage looked too far gone, 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.480 you had given up on it, But suddenly a reversal. 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.559 You thought your business was done. The pandemic sets you back. 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:30.440 Then one shift and suddenly things are stronger than ever. 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.640 Now get in agreement with God. No more. 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.520 I'll never get ahead, Joel. Nobody gives me the time 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.159 of day. How can I break out? Look how I 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.200 was raised? No, turn it around. Father, Thank you that 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.320 a reversal is coming. Thank you that you are shifting 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.280 things in my favor. That what was meant for harm 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.080 you're turning to my advantage. That I will come out 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:56.560 stronger healthier, promoted, honored. Don't live with a victim mentality, 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:01.560 a lack mindset. I'm overlooked at a disadvantage. This is 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:05.040 just my lot in life. No, your lot in life. 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:08.200 Is to excel, to be the head and not the tale. 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.760 You may be the tale now, but that's temporary. A 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:15.560 reversal is coming. To be above and not beneath. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.440 You may be beneath now, but above is. 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:18.880 On the way. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:24.960 Good breaks divine connections fever that will catapault you from the. 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.480 Last to the first. Now you don't have to make 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:33.360 this happen. You don't have to strive, manipulate people, force 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:34.360 doors to open. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:35.080 You. 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.839 Just keep honoring God, doing the right thing. When it's hard, 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:41.920 being good to people that are not being good to you, 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:47.080 keep smiling, praising, thanking God. You do your part, and 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.720 God will do his part. Promotion doesn't come from people. 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.840 He comes from the Lord. He lifts up one and 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:54.840 sets down another. 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:57.240 He sees you being overlooked. 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:01.919 He sees when you discounted, treated fairly, raised in a 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:06.479 rough environment. Thoughts tell you you'll never get ahead, you'll 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.280 never accomplish your dreams, you'll never have respect and honor. 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.280 Don't believe those lies. The God we serve knows how 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:18.240 to reverse the order. You should have been defeated, you 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:22.120 should have lived struggling, but the reversal took place. You 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.280 went from the back to the front, from being overlooked 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:29.520 to being honored, from struggling to succeeding. It may not 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.080 have happened yet, but your time is coming. Your reversal 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:37.120 is already on the schedule. This is what happened to David. 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.600 He was the youngest of eight brothers. 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:44.320 His father Jesse, saw him as the least, not up 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:44.680 to par. 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:48.480 He didn't have the talent, the size, the experience of 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:52.120 these other brothers. He discounted him and left him out. 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:56.400 When the prophet Samuel came to Jesse's house to anoint 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.520 one of the sons as the next king, Jesse didn't 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:00.760 bother to call David. 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.080 In thought, there's no way it's David. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:08.400 If our destiny only depended on people who likes us, 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.080 who believes in us, who thinks we're talented, we'd get stuck. 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.960 Because there will always be people that discount you, leave 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.960 you out. Sometimes they're intimidated, they don't want you to 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:23.400 pass them up. They're jealous, They don't want your gifts 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.400 to come out. They'll try to push you down. The 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:30.240 good news is they don't control your destiny. The most 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.480 High God is ordering your steps. 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.200 He's working out his plan for your life. 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:40.040 David was the last son, the youngest. All the brothers 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.880 were ahead of him. But notice what God did. Samuel 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.839 looked at the seven sons said to Jesse, it's none 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:47.560 of these seven. 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:49.360 Do you have any more? Sons. 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:53.079 Even when people try to leave you out, even when 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:54.040 they overlook you. 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:58.120 God doesn't overlook you. Jesse had David come in from 0:08:58.160 --> 0:08:59.040 the shepherd's fields. 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:03.520 Samuel said, that's the next king. I'm sure, Jesse. The 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.680 other sons they thought, how could that be. He's not 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:10.920 next in line, he's not the biggest, strongest, most talented. 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.040 But God doesn't choose the way we choose. 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:18.480 David went from being left out in the shepherd's fields 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:22.760 by himself, nobody thinking he'd ever do anything great. Then 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.880 God showed up and said, David, don't worry, I'm about 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.640 to reverse the order. I'm about to take you from 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.720 the back to the front, from the least to the leader, 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.880 from being discounted to being looked up to I like 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:36.720 David's father. 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:38.439 You may have family. 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.600 Members that don't believe in you, relatives that look down 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.520 on you, coworkers that don't give you the time of day, 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.480 and it's easy to be offended. 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:48.640 Want to get in there and fight with them. 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.480 Try to prove to them who you are and prove 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:52.880 that you have something to offer. 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:54.720 That's not your battle. 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.880 You keep doing the right thing, and Samuel will show 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:04.120 up when it's your time. Promotion will come looking for you, Vindication, honor, 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:05.360 respect will. 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:09.320 Come knocking on your door. David didn't go looking for Samuel. 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.640 He didn't say, Samuel, come annoy me, man, I'm talented. 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.360 He didn't start a campaign elect me as the next king. 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.040 He didn't go debate three other candidates. 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:23.400 He knew God was ordering his steps and ordering the 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:24.079 steps of. 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:25.120 The people he needed. 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:30.040 God has already lined up your Samuel's things you couldn't 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.640 make happen that will take you from the last to 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:37.080 the first, from the background to the foreground. The good breaks, 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:41.440 the right people, the ideas. There are shifts that will 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.199 suddenly cause people to see you in a new light. 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:48.800 Suddenly a door opens, Suddenly things turn in your favor. 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.760 After David was anointed to be king, he went back 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:54.000 to the shepherd's fields. 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:55.400 I'm sure now he. 0:10:55.400 --> 0:11:00.480 Felt approved, valuable, vindicated. Finally, someone pulled it out to 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.199 his father that he was talented, that he had great 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:07.439 things to offer. If that wasn't enough, Not long after that, 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.960 King Saul needed someone at the palace that could play 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.720 the heart for him. One of the assistants knew that 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.560 David was great at it. The scripture says Saul sent 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:22.320 messengers to Jesse, saying, send me your son David. 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:23.079 Who is with the sheep. 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:28.679 Imagine how Jesse must have felt. First this prophet randomly 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.520 showed up and chose the son he thought was the 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:35.440 least likely. Now the king is saying, send me your 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.880 son to the palace. God knows how to take you 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.320 from the back to the front. He knows how to 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.959 send people who will use their influence to honor you, 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:49.360 to give you new levels of respect credibility. A few 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:53.160 months earlier, Jesse didn't think enough of David to even 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:54.000 bring him in. 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:55.400 When Samuel showed. 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.400 Up, David was overlooked, discounted. 0:11:58.679 --> 0:11:59.959 But look at how God works. 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:04.760 Now the king of the whole nation is calling for David. Friends, 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:08.720 God knows how to reverse the order. You may feel 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:12.920 like you're at a disadvantage, limited by your environment, by 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:16.040 how you were raised, by what you didn't get. Stay 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:20.480 encouraged or reversal is coming. God loves to take the 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:24.200 overlooked and cause them to shine, to take those that 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:30.439 have been discounted, left out, put them in positions of honor, respect, influence. 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:35.040 The last will be first, The discounted will be celebrated, 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.119 the ignored will be admired. 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:39.439 Now, one thing about. 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:42.240 David is he kept a good attitude when he wasn't 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:43.240 being treated right. 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.560 He didn't get bitter. God, why did these people always 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:47.120 leave me out? 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:50.080 This isn't fair? He just kept doing the right thing. 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:54.120 Deep down he understood this principle. I may be the 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:58.280 last son, I may be discounted, seen is not talented. 0:12:58.600 --> 0:12:59.880 But I know a shift is. 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.400 I know a reversal is on the way that what 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.000 God put in my heart will come to pass. 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:11.520 Stay faithful in the silent seasons. Stay faithful when. 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.920 You're in the shepherd's fields being your best, but nobody's 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:15.720 given you credit. 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:17.439 You're being overlooked. 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:21.720 People may not see you, but God sees you. He's 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:25.680 the one that matters. He controls the universe. He speaks 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.160 to the samuels, he. 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.440 Talks to the kings. He opens doors that no person 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:31.000 can shut. 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:35.800 One shift, and you'll go from being overlooked to being celebrated, 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.480 from no one paying attention to the King calling for you. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:41.480 Friend of mine. 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.800 Graduated from high school and she was planning to go 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.640 to college. But she got engaged and things moved very fast. 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.240 Ended up getting married, having a baby. 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:54.120 Now college was put on home. Then she had another child. 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:58.120 She loved being a mother, loved reaching her children, but 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:02.000 she had this dream of doing something professionally, maybe working 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.440 in the medical field or some kind of sales. 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.240 Twenty years had passed since high school. 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:11.960 She saw this job opportunity online for a marketing executive 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:16.200 at this prestigious firm. The problem was it required a 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.960 college degree, years of experience. 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:22.040 All these references, which she had none of. 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:26.960 Despite that, she applied anyway. She did a phone interview 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:31.240 with them and had a short conversation. They really liked her, 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:35.200 but they immediately told her no, she didn't have the qualifications. 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:39.120 There were people applying that not only had college degrees, 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:43.480 but they had their masters. All these impressive credentials from 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:44.720 Ivy League schools. 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.880 She knew in one sense, she didn't measure up. 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.760 All she had was a high school diploma. But God 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:55.040 is not limited by what you don't have. He's not 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.320 limited by what you didn't get. The dream he put 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.480 in your heart is not depend on you having all 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:07.800 the qualifications, the experience, the training, the people being for you. Sometimes, 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:09.640 on purpose, God. 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:11.280 Will let the odds be against you. 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.600 He'll let you be over your head, the back of 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.400 the line, the least likely. 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:17.800 That's a setup. 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.440 That's a sign that a reversal is coming. The scripture 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:26.240 says God chooses the foolish to confound the wise. He 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.840 loves to take the unqualified and cause them to excel, 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:34.440 to take those that people disregard and cause them to shine. 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:36.960 Well, my friend was passed over for the job. 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:41.680 While she was disappointed, she understood that on paper she 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:46.280 didn't have what was required. Companies have standards, they have policies, 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:50.520 But when God is ready to promote you, he'll cause rules, 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:54.600 to bend policies, to change people, to make an exception. 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:58.440 He's not bound by natural laws by policies. 0:15:58.840 --> 0:15:59.960 He controls the union. 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.840 He can change people's minds he can cause them to 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.360 want to be good to you. They may not even 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:10.200 know why. It's God shining his favor on you, pushing 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:14.280 you into your purpose. Three months later, this company called 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:18.040 back and said, after doing all of our research, interviewing 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:22.200 all these candidates with more experience, more degrees, more credentials, 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:23.880 We've changed our mind. 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:25.760 We want to offer you the position. 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:30.920 That's God reversing the order, that's God taking you from 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:34.720 the back to the front, from being overlooked to being 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:39.240 in charge. I believe there are some reversals coming for 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:43.360 you. You may think you could never accomplish your dream, never 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:47.120 meet the right person, never break the addiction. You tried, 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:51.560 it didn't happen. You don't have the qualifications. Now you've 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:55.520 accepted being in the bag getting by in life. God 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.520 is saying, I'm about to take the last and make 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:02.040 them the first. Hate those that are overlooked and cause 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.360 them to be seen, those that have had bad breaks, 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.639 that are at a disadvantage, and put them in a 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:13.960 position of influence, honor, with resources, with abundance. Things are 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.840 about to shift. It's going to happen suddenly. It's going 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:22.439 to be out of the ordinary. Divine reversals. A reversal 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:26.840 in that sickness. Suddenly your health improves, a reversal in 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.760 that relationship it was falling apart, suddenly it gets better. 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:37.600 A reversal in your finances, suddenly new clients, new opportunities, blessings. 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:37.960 Chasing you down. 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:42.879 When we put our program on television each Sunday, we 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:44.440 purchased that airtime. 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:46.120 When we first started, the. 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.399 Only time we could get was early Sunday morning before 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:50.159 six am. 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:51.720 Very few people watching. 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:54.879 Over time, God's given us favor, and now we have 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:58.679 good airtimes all across the nation. Many people watch, but 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:03.000 it's very expensive, takes a big portion of our budget. Well, 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:06.600 eight years ago a large network called and said they 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:11.120 wanted to air our program. It's a very influential, popular network. 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:14.560 And I thought, wow, God, that's amazing. That's your favor, 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:18.520 they're calling us. After I got over the excitement, I 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:21.840 came back to reality and said to my media director, 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.800 how much is it going to cost? They may warn us, 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.600 but we can't afford it. He said, no, Joe, this 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:31.120 deal is different. We don't have to pay anything. They're 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.920 asking if they can pay us to put. 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:34.439 The program on. 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:40.160 He's been in the media business over forty years, bought 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.360 airtime for all the TV ministries. 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:43.240 He said, I have. 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:47.560 Never seen anything happen like this. God is doing a 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:51.560 new thing. From borrowing to lending, from hoping to get 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:55.080 on to can we pay you for the content? From 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:59.240 being down at the bottom, overlooked, to being promoted, honored, 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:01.040 given up his position of influence. 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:03.359 Get ready for some reversals. 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:06.760 Well, Joe Man, I'm hoping just make it through this year, 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:09.879 gas prices, inflation, the pandemic. 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:10.520 Not me. 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:15.040 I'm expecting an abundant year, a bountiful year, a favor 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:19.840 filled year. God is about to shift some things. It's 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.920 going to be something you've never seen, something that will 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:23.919 make your mind. 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.600 Go tilt tilt. I didn't see that coming. 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:30.960 Instead of paying rent, owning your property, instead of working 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:35.080 for others, owning your business, instead of struggling to make ends, 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:36.720 me having an abundance. 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:39.800 I don't see how this can happen. You don't have 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:42.160 to see how. All you have to do is believe. 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:46.200 Father, thank you that you're a god who reverses the order, 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:48.119 a god who can make the last. 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:49.960 First Lord, I thank. 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:52.399 You for doing what only you can do, for taking 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:55.480 me where I can't go on my own. Second King, 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:59.920 Chapter seven, the Syrian army had surrounded the city of Samaria. 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:04.440 They cut off the Israelites food supply, clogged up their 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:07.840 waterways so they couldn't get water. The Israelites were so 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:11.160 distraught it looked like that was the end. The prophet 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:15.520 Elisha showed up and said, by this time tomorrow there 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:17.959 will be so much food that bread will be a 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:21.240 penny of loaf, and five quarts of flower will be 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:24.440 just ten cents. They looked at Elisha like he had 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:28.080 lost his mind. They were surrounded by the enemy, out 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:29.760 of supplies, starving. 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:31.880 One of the main leaders. 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:36.200 Said, Elisha, that's impossible. Even if God opened the windows 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:37.000 of heaven. 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:37.679 That couldn't happen. 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:42.040 Elisha said to him, in effect, because you didn't believe, 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:45.200 it's not going to happen for you. Everyone else is 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:47.399 going to see it, but your doubt is going to 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:48.440 keep you from seeing it. 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:50.960 Now, you may not see how your. 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:54.520 Situation could ever change, How God could reverse the trouble 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:58.800 the marriage. The finances doesn't look possible in the natural, 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:00.800 But God is supernatural. 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:04.280 He has ways that we've never thought of. Don't do 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:07.120 like this man and talk to yourself out of your miracle. 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:09.439 Be a believer and not a doubter. 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:14.159 There were four lepers sitting outside the gates of Samarian. 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:17.560 They decided to walk toward the enemy's camp to see 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:21.320 what the Syrians were doing. God multiplied the sound of 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:25.160 their footsteps. The Syrians thought they were being attacked by 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:28.480 a huge army. They panicked and took off, running for 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:33.159 their lives. They left all their food, supplies, equipment. The 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:36.720 Lepers went back and told the Israelites. They all came 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:40.960 and gathered up the spoils, just like Elisha promised. In 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:44.240 less than twenty four hours, they had more food more 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:49.080 supplies than they ever imagined. God knows how to reverse things. 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:53.520 What you're up against may look permanent. Thoughts tell you 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:57.440 you'll always struggle, you never get ahead, never be healthy, 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:00.760 never meet the right person. No, there's about to be 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:05.959 a divine reversal, a supernatural shift in your finances, in 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:07.840 your children, in your health. 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:09.000 In your relationships. 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:12.360 I received an email from a woman that had been 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:15.640 separated from her husband for over a year. He had 0:22:15.680 --> 0:22:18.760 moved out of the house, they hadn't spoken to each other. 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:21.880 Looked like it was over she saw that we were 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:25.160 coming to Yankee Stadium. She reached out to her husband 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:28.600 and asked if he would come. Against all odds. 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:29.440 He said yes. 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:32.280 They saw each other for the first time in a 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:36.200 year and sat together at the end, with tears running 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:39.280 down their cheeks. They both stood up to recommit their 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:41.560 life to Christ for a new beginning. 0:22:41.480 --> 0:22:45.440 For a fresh new start. That night he went back 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:46.920 home with her and the children. 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:50.440 Now they're together as a family. She said, I didn't 0:22:50.480 --> 0:22:53.639 think this would ever happen. We had been through so much. 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:59.119 God knows how to reverse things, what looks permanent, what 0:22:59.240 --> 0:23:03.879 seems unlike. One touch of God's favor and suddenly things shift. 0:23:04.480 --> 0:23:08.560 Suddenly your child turns around, Suddenly your health improves, Suddenly 0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:12.560 your dreams come to pass. When we acquired the Compact 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:16.040 Center this place, we signed a sixty. 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:17.560 Year lease with the City of Houston. 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:20.680 We always wanted to own the building, but the lease 0:23:20.920 --> 0:23:23.720 was the best way to get the facility at the time. 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:27.400 While we were thrilled to have it, it always bothered 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:30.639 me a little bit that in sixty years the building 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:33.560 would go back to the city. I was forty two 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:36.680 years old when we'd signed the least I thought, Man, 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:38.919 when I'm one hundred and two, I don't want to 0:23:38.920 --> 0:23:42.560 be down at the city negotiating another lease, especially when 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:45.359 I'll be taking care of my brother Paul, who will 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:47.040 be one hundred and forty four at that time. 0:23:48.119 --> 0:23:49.920 But I always prayed, God, I. 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:52.679 Don't know how this can happen, but I know you 0:23:52.760 --> 0:23:55.920 can make a way where we can purchase the building 0:23:56.240 --> 0:23:59.560 so that generations to come will have Lakewood as a 0:23:59.640 --> 0:24:03.920 lighthouse of hope. Seven years after we signed the lease, 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:07.480 the mayor called said the city was short on tax 0:24:07.520 --> 0:24:11.080 revenue and asked if we were interested in purchasing the building. 0:24:11.520 --> 0:24:13.919 I knew that was God opening the door, but I 0:24:13.920 --> 0:24:15.280 didn't know what it was going to cost. 0:24:15.960 --> 0:24:17.320 To build this facility. 0:24:17.600 --> 0:24:20.479 Would cost a half of billion dollars. We're on one 0:24:20.520 --> 0:24:21.800 of the busiest freeways. 0:24:22.160 --> 0:24:24.160 Millions of people have been in this building. 0:24:24.280 --> 0:24:28.120 The rockets have won two world championships here, very prestigious 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:30.520 and I told her we would love to buy it, 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:31.320 but we. 0:24:31.280 --> 0:24:33.480 Just need to see if we can make it work financially. 0:24:34.240 --> 0:24:36.840 She said that they would run the appraisal and get 0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:39.960 back with us. Well, they had to appraise the building 0:24:40.359 --> 0:24:44.000 based on us having a sixty year lease, meaning whoever 0:24:44.080 --> 0:24:47.200 bought it wouldn't get it for over fifty years. They 0:24:47.280 --> 0:24:49.640 came back in a few weeks and said they would 0:24:49.640 --> 0:24:52.800 sell it to us. Not for three hundred million, not 0:24:52.920 --> 0:24:55.840 for one hundred million, not fifty, not twenty five. They 0:24:55.880 --> 0:25:00.119 said you can purchase it for seven million dollars. My 0:25:00.160 --> 0:25:03.600 mind was going till till till I didn't see that coming. 0:25:04.640 --> 0:25:05.320 What was that? 0:25:05.960 --> 0:25:10.760 A divine reversal, A sixty year lead suddenly shifted to 0:25:10.840 --> 0:25:12.679 an unbelievable purchase price. 0:25:13.520 --> 0:25:15.480 God is about to reverse. 0:25:15.119 --> 0:25:18.000 Some things in your life, things that look like they'll 0:25:18.000 --> 0:25:19.040 never change. 0:25:19.720 --> 0:25:21.840 You'll never own your own house, you'll. 0:25:21.760 --> 0:25:25.600 Never get married, never break the addiction, never start that ministry. 0:25:26.000 --> 0:25:29.560 Get ready for a reversal. Things are going. 0:25:29.359 --> 0:25:32.879 To suddenly shift in your favor. Samuel is going to 0:25:32.920 --> 0:25:35.760 show up looking for you. The Mayor's going to call, 0:25:35.840 --> 0:25:38.960 so to speak, the people you need to open the 0:25:39.040 --> 0:25:43.680 right doors to move you into your destiny. Sometimes what's 0:25:43.760 --> 0:25:48.239 limiting us are negative things in our family lines that 0:25:48.359 --> 0:25:53.400 keep getting passed down. Addictions, low self esteem, divorce, lack, 0:25:53.560 --> 0:25:54.399 can't get ahead. 0:25:54.920 --> 0:25:57.520 We get used to it, think it's just who we are. 0:25:58.359 --> 0:26:01.199 But part of this reversal is God is going to 0:26:01.200 --> 0:26:03.760 put an end to these negative. 0:26:03.400 --> 0:26:06.600 Cycles that keep going from generation to generation. 0:26:07.040 --> 0:26:09.760 This is a new day. God's doing a new thing. 0:26:10.920 --> 0:26:11.840 It may have been in. 0:26:11.760 --> 0:26:15.159 Your family for years, but every force that's trying to 0:26:15.160 --> 0:26:16.560 stop you is being broken. 0:26:17.359 --> 0:26:18.359 You're the one. 0:26:18.240 --> 0:26:20.960 That's going to see the reversal. You're going to set 0:26:21.000 --> 0:26:24.080 new standards. You're going to step into new levels. You're 0:26:24.119 --> 0:26:27.280 going to go places no one in your family has 0:26:27.320 --> 0:26:31.679 ever gone. This is what happened with Rahab in the scripture. 0:26:32.119 --> 0:26:35.320 She was a good woman that got off course. She 0:26:35.440 --> 0:26:39.080 came from a family that worshiped idols. They were very poor. 0:26:39.600 --> 0:26:42.920 They lived right inside the walls of Jericho. She ended 0:26:43.000 --> 0:26:46.040 up as a prostitute. She never dreamed she would live 0:26:46.080 --> 0:26:48.879 this kind of life. She didn't like who she was. 0:26:49.440 --> 0:26:51.520 She knew she was made for more, but it was 0:26:51.600 --> 0:26:54.639 like she couldn't get out of this negative cycle. And 0:26:54.680 --> 0:26:57.280 she had heard about the God of Israel, how he 0:26:57.359 --> 0:27:01.080 parted the Red Sea and protected the israel lights. I 0:27:01.119 --> 0:27:04.880 can imagine at night, she looked up at the stars, said, 0:27:04.880 --> 0:27:08.920 God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, if you're real, help 0:27:08.960 --> 0:27:12.399 me get out of this trouble. Deliver me from this dysfunction. 0:27:13.119 --> 0:27:17.200 She wanted to change, but it seemed impossible. One day, 0:27:17.280 --> 0:27:20.680 Joshua sent two men to spy off the city of Jericho. 0:27:21.480 --> 0:27:24.280 Word got out that they were there. They knocked on 0:27:24.359 --> 0:27:28.040 Rehab's door, looking for a place to hide. She could 0:27:28.040 --> 0:27:31.359 have called the authorities turned them in, but she Since 0:27:31.520 --> 0:27:35.240 this was a destiny moment, she hid them and later 0:27:35.320 --> 0:27:40.320 helped them escape. In return, the Israelites spared Rayhab and 0:27:40.400 --> 0:27:44.240 all of her family. Now, Rehab is listed as one 0:27:44.240 --> 0:27:47.280 of the heroes of faith. She's in the family line 0:27:47.400 --> 0:27:51.080 of Jesus Christ. But out of all the places the 0:27:51.160 --> 0:27:56.560 spies could have knocked, somehow they chose Rehab's door. God 0:27:56.640 --> 0:28:00.399 has not forgotten about you. You may have been pushed down, 0:28:00.800 --> 0:28:03.480 left out, feel like you're at the very back. If 0:28:03.560 --> 0:28:07.280 Rahab were here today, she would tell you staying couraged. 0:28:07.560 --> 0:28:11.000 God knows how to reverse things. She went from being 0:28:11.000 --> 0:28:17.760 looked down on, despised, not valuable, to being honored, respected, influentials. 0:28:18.840 --> 0:28:22.560 Maybe there's negative baggage in your past, things you've done. 0:28:22.600 --> 0:28:26.239 You're not proud of, dysfunction in your family line that 0:28:26.359 --> 0:28:27.680 keeps getting passed down. 0:28:28.359 --> 0:28:30.159 Don't believe that lie. 0:28:29.800 --> 0:28:32.840 That is always going to be that way. A reversal 0:28:33.000 --> 0:28:37.840 is coming. God's about to reverse the dysfunction, reverse the shame, 0:28:38.120 --> 0:28:42.120 reverse the compromise. You wouldn't be hearing this if he 0:28:42.280 --> 0:28:46.120 wasn't about to shift some things. I believe and declare 0:28:46.320 --> 0:28:49.560 like Rahab, like with David, God's going to take it 0:28:49.640 --> 0:28:53.320 from the background to the foreground, from being overlooked to 0:28:53.440 --> 0:28:54.360 in charge. 0:28:54.440 --> 0:28:57.520 In Jesus' name. Then if you receive it, can you 0:28:57.600 --> 0:28:58.360 say a man. 0:29:00.200 --> 0:29:02.920 To give you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord 0:29:02.960 --> 0:29:03.560 of your life? 0:29:03.960 --> 0:29:04.920 Would you pray with me? 0:29:05.680 --> 0:29:11.120 Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll repent of my sins, Come 0:29:11.160 --> 0:29:11.920 into my heart. 0:29:12.880 --> 0:29:14.880 I make you my Lord and savior. 0:29:16.280 --> 0:29:18.760 If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:29:18.760 --> 0:29:19.440 born again. 0:29:20.080 --> 0:29:21.080 We'd love to send you. 0:29:21.080 --> 0:29:23.680 Some free information on your new walk with the Lord. 0:29:23.680 --> 0:29:25.640 You can go to the website text the number on 0:29:25.680 --> 0:29:28.920 the screen. I hope you'll get into a good Bible 0:29:28.960 --> 0:29:32.560 based church and keep God first place. Thanks so much 0:29:32.600 --> 0:29:35.920 for listening to today's message. 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